generally once a thread is locked it stays locked. Most on Cafe are due to the size of the thread or the starting of a new thread with the same topic.

on NC you get the same thing with the caveat of users wanting to close their thread once its usefulness has passed. So unless its your thread its unlikely that it will be unlocked In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope